Finds

Bowls

Several bowls, open, wide containers, were found in the Nuragic site of Su Nuraxi, that had straight or round-hole handles, used to eat liquid or solid foods (figs. 1, 2, 3).

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Figs. 1, 2, 3 - Bowls found during the digs of the village of Su Nuraxi (photos by Pinna P.P., RAS Photographic Archive).

Some bowls, with a hull, were found inside wells g-e-b, under the floor of hut 135 in the village of Su Nuraxi (fig. 4), and were used to hold sacred meals offered as foundation rituals. They date back to the Final Bronze Age (1150-850 B.C.).

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Fig. 4 - Archaeological area of Su Nuraxi, room 135, bowls from wells g, e and b (from Lilliu 1955, Table LXXIV).

These are artefacts with flat-convex bottoms, outward-facing wall, thin rim, a brown-red clay and surfaces, with a handle on the wall, above the hull. The artefacts are currently on show at Casa Zapata in Barumini.

 

Bibliografia

  • BAGELLA S., Ciotola carenata- scheda 12, in MORAVETTI A., ALBA L., FODDAI L. (a cura di), La Sardegna Nuragica. Storia e materiali, Sassari 2014, p. 232.
  • BAGELLA S., Ciotola carenata triansata - scheda 15, in MORAVETTI A., ALBA L., FODDAI L. (a cura di), La Sardegna Nuragica. Storia e materiali, Sassari 2014, p. 233.
  • CAMPUS F., LEONELLI V., La tipologia della ceramica nuragica. Il materiale edito, Viterbo 2000, pp. 251-323.
  • LILLIU G., Il nuraghe di Barumini e la stratigrafia nuragica, in Studi Sardi, XXII-XXIII, 1955.
  • PAGLIETTI G., Analisi del corredo ceramico dei pozzetti della capanna 135 di Su Nuraxi (Barumini, Cagliari), in Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche, LXI, 2011, pp. 215-230.
  • SANTONI V., Il nuraghe Su Nuraxi di Barumini, Guide e Studi, Quartu Sant’Elena 2001, pp. 69-75.
  • TRUDU E., Il nuraghe Su Nuraxi di Barumini, in MINOJA M., SALIS G., USAI L. (a cura di), L'isola delle torri: Giovanni Lilliu e la Sardegna nuragica. Catalogo della mostra, Sassari 2015, pp. 397-399.

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